Jurors mulled the punishment for once-prominent dermatologist turned sex offender Calvin Day for 13 hours Tuesday following closing arguments in which he was alternately described as a wrongly-convicted saver of countless lives and as a “cancer on the community.”

But ultimately, the group was unable to reach a verdict — causing the long, bizarre patient sex assault trial to stretch into one more day.

The jury, which at one point indicated they were deadlocked 11-1, is set to resume deliberations this morning. The note to state District Judge Ron Rangel did not elaborate on what end of the punishment range the majority was leaning.

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Day, 61, could face probation on up to a 20-year sentence for the August 2010 sexual assault of a Botox patient. In the punishment phase of his trial, seven other women said they also were violated through sexual harassment or sexual assault.

But the women were either misinterpreting Day's thorough full-body skin cancer exams or were outright lying, defense attorneys Jay Norton and Alan Brown alleged during closing arguments, continuing to call the original accuser “the drama queen.”

“They combed the earth ... to find whatever weirdos and wackos they could to come here and tell you these stories,” Brown said. “They cost this community 27 jobs.”

Norton predicted glumly that “people are going to die as a result” of Day's conviction and the inevitable loss of his medical license that will follow. But with probation he can still do some good, he suggested.

Prosecutors asked for the maximum prison term. While he might have been described as a brilliant doctor by some colleagues and patients, there's no “smart guy” exception to the law, said Assistant District Attorney Kirsta Melton.

“Don't let them make this a war on dermatology,” Melton said, pointing out that most of the accusations had nothing to do with a full-body exam.

“For 20 years he has sucked out the marrow of this community, undetected in ... the trappings of medicine,” she said. “Calvin Day used women as commodities — things to be bought and sold and used and discarded. He chose his own lusts over his patients' wellbeing.”

In a series of notes to the judge after deliberations began, the jury asked if it would be possible to bar Day only from the cosmetic side of his practice — Botox and laser hair removal procedures — but allow him to continue “cancer treatment.” The group later asked if inmates are required to take sex offender classes in prison.

Rangel did not respond, instructing the group only to continue deliberations.